As part of Google’s DNI project, we built ‘POST’ at Edenspiekermann, a Slackbot to help journalists track article performance. Here’s an overview of our adventures with a new tech stack of Elixir and Phoenix…

Recently I wanted to add basic text search to an application I as working on. It took me a while to figure out the right way to index columns for LIKE lookups, especially for indexing compound columns. Here’s how I did it.